so today I'm going to be doing a quick unboxing of the silen X extreme a pro
series heat pipe CPU Cooler so this is the I c92 H2 so I'm going to hold that a
little bit closer to the camera or better yet I could use this particular
little trick of mine where I have a little remote that will zoom in on it
aha no cameraman today but I don't need one so it is less than 18 DB according
to silent X it supports all Intel sockets including 775 and AMD socket o
wow 754 and am2 so that means you've got
support for 775 am2 am3 and you can see
that there's another little sticker on here that says Intel Core i7 compatible
if it would focus there it goes so Intel Core i7 compatible that means that it is
compatible with LGA 1366 as well this is
a 92mm version designed for smaller cases so why don't we uh have a look at
yeah let's have a look at the side of the box as well so I'm going to do this zooming thing again sorry everyone
all right so first of all this is a heat pipe direct touch heat sink and uh at
the time this was uh a big deal but it
uses 8 mm versus 6 mm on they saying
most competing products heat pipes that means that it can transfer more heat
faster next of all it uses the latest generation of silen x i extreme a pro
fans and lastly 38 tightly spaced
aluminum fins offer nearly a class leading 5,000 cm squ of surface area
let's go around to the back where it just has a little bit more about the basic specs as well as some come on
Focus you can do it no you can't do it okay as well as the compatibility info
which is horrendously outdated okay so why don't we open this thing up and find
out just what is inside so I'm going to
go ahead and point that kind of there and then oh man this is brutal not
having someone operating the camera what are you going to do okay let's get the
Box open so the first thing we find inside you can see they have packed
in uh an LGA 1366 bracket all right
there it is and then the next thing you'll find is they have got a little uh
instruction sheet here so that covers the Intel installation procedure all
right so they show you you put the top bracket down you put four screws through
and it uses a back plate I love mounting systems that have a back plate it's just
so much more secure than trying to use push pins um next we have LGA 775
then we have our four mounting screws and then we have what else do we got in
here um all right we have ooh this one's
in color too so this is the installation guide for 754 939 940 and am2 so this
will also apply to am3 so that's in color and everything check that out very
nice very nice indeed okay what's next I can figure out
how to pull that back up here is a piece of double-sided tape I don't know what
it's for yet maybe we'll figure it out maybe we
won't okay let's keep digging further in
see what else we can find here oh oh wow
okay so H here is the back plate
for gee well which mounting system is
this for cuz it doesn't look like it's compatible with both 775 and
1366 so oh okay I was mistaken the 775
version uses the plastic push pins whereas the 1366 version uses a bolt
through so this back plate is for the 1366 version okay I get it now oh and we
figured out what the uh what the double-sided tape is for it's for this
fan speed controller so the cable for the fan speed controller is also in here
everything's just kind of loose in the Box it's not the best package I've ever
seen a product but I mean it's not like any of this is fragile and going to be
damaged so you just plug this in on the one side here you just kind of line it
up so that it goes in like that and then at the one end this goes into your
motherboard header or into a Molex to three pin adapter and then this plugs
into your fan and then you can use this little dial here to adjust the fan speed
very cool okay next we have
um H okay we've got a little uh baggie
of thermal compound as well as four push pins I'm going to go ahead and assume
that those are for AMX am2 am2 plus am3 next they include
not only two uh fan wire Clips but four
so that means that besides the 92 mm fan included you can also mount an
additional 92mm fan to the unit without buying any accessories besides what's
included in the Box okay so before we get to the actual
heat pipe cooler itself why don't we have a look at the
fan there it is a 92 mm fan the blades
spin like this it's all shiny and even
the fan itself is is pretty silver and shiny it has uh one of those transparent
plastic uh three pin connectors it's quite long you shouldn't have too much
trouble with that like all of the latest generation silent x i extreme a fans it
uses a small Hub in the center and their claim is that that gives you more usable
airflow Space versus fans with a larger Hub I kind of buy
that okay next we have the actual heat
pipe cooler itself so why don't we start cuz I usually do this at the end why
don't we start with the obligatory finger do so you can see that it is not
all that shiny but if there to be believed it is quite flat I can actually
feel the Machining marks though quite and clearly with my fingernail uh
whether or not that's going to be a problem when you're actually cooling a processor with it yeah it remains to be
seen but you can see actually I'm going to like get up to show the camera this
maybe I'll Shine the Light directly at it see if we can get it to focus a
little better oh that is not
helping there we go okay so you can see
that they've actually lapped the heat pipe surface itself so that's
what they mean by heat pipe direct touch okay and then so these are three nice
thick heat pipes these are still thick even by today's standards despite the
fact that this is a relatively old product and then you can see that the uh
fins are quite close together not really they're not jammed in that close so they
should perform quite well with a low air flow fan low noise fan which you would
make sense because silent X Prides themselves and their low noise low
airflow fans I mean I don't mean low air flow I mean they're low air flow
compared to a high noise fan the top is very shiny so you can probably actually
see my camera there you go yeah you can totally see my camera in the top of it
so I really like that and it has like a silent X logo on it I think that pretty
much covers if I can find my remote
everything I wanted to say about this particular cooler and so thank you for
checking out my unboxing